Container Listing

Series 1:
Bibliography and Research Notes,
History of California1550-1890

Physical Description:
Cartons 1-22
Linear feet: 29.20

Language of Material:
English

Arrangement

Arranged alphabetically by subject or county name, then chronologically within each
subject.

Content/Description

The majority of bibliographic notes were taken between 1870 and 1890 from manuscripts
and books which were part of Hubert Howe Bancroft's collection Bibliographic
notes include title, author, volume, and page citations; many notes are simple, 1- to
4-line summaries with a specific region and date noted in the left hand margin.

Research notes are one to ten page transcriptions or summaries of historical documents,
biographies and earlier published histories and clippings pasted onto paper.

Series 2:
Bibliography and Research Notes,
California Pastoral 1769-1848.

Physical Description:
Box 1

Arrangement

Arranged alphabetically by subject.

Content/Description

Contains primary research notes.

box 1, folder 1

Benicia

box 1, folder 2

Early Voyages

box 1, folder 3

Missions and Presidios

box 1, folder 4

Mission Paintings

box 1, folder 5

Yerba Buena

box 1, folder 6

Bibliographic Notes

box 1, folder 7-8

Miscellany

Series 3:
Bibliography and Research Notes,
California Inter Pocula1848-1856.

Physical Description:
Box 2-4

Arrangement

Arranged alphabetically by subject.

Content/Description

Includes a majority of research notes written on topics associated with the Inter
pocula period (Latin term meaning between drinks or drunkeness or full cups). The term
inter pocula was chosen by Bancroft to describe the period between the discovery of gold
and the development of a legally functional society in California after statehood.
Lawlessness, crime, fires, earthquakes, judicial matters, prices, prostitution,
lynching, slavery, shipwrecks, women and the Vigilance Committee a sampling of topics
researched for this volume focusing on the hazards and disillusion suffered by a large
influx of gold seekers. Also there is an assemblage of research notes on population
groups, commerce and business enterprises, politics, mail, transportation, social
customs and activities, population, and property matters during these years. Of
significance are two separate dictations, eyewitness accounts of discovery of gold (one
by Mrs. Wimmer) and Sutter's personal reaction to the find.